I think that Kottke speaks for an entire nation in peril:
Once every three years, the first trailer for yet another crappy George Lucas Star Wars movie is released somewhere to great fanfare. And each time, I watch said trailer and get all excited. It looks great, I’ll say. Maybe it’ll actually be good. My hopes start to rise. And then the movie comes out, Natalie Portman is transformed by Lucas’ awful direction into the worst actress ever, and I leave the theatre disappointed that a cherished childhood institution has been handled in such a piss-poor manner. With the impending release of Episode III and the trailer during last night’s episode of The OC, I have vowed not to get my hopes up. Never again, George Lucas, will you disappoint me.
However.
OMFG THE TRAILER FOR THE NEW STAR WARS MOVIE IS SOOO GREAT AND EXCITING AND THIS MOVIE IS GOING TO KICK SO MUCH ASS!!!
I can’t let myself get sucked in again. I just can’t. It’s too emotionally draining. If I want to be set up for that kind of disappointment, I’ll go watch another Sin City preview.
[ via ***Dave ]
I don’t have to worry about getting sucked in. I look forward to each new installment, and I don’t expect any of them to be as magical as the first two and half movies. (Save for the ewoks)
I’ll enjoy it. But it won’t ruin me.
Oh thank goodness, I’m not the only one! I feared to say how disappointed I was in the last two of the ‘first three’. They sucked.
I feel purged and somehow cleaner.
The minute them damn teddy bear toys showed up in Episode VI, I pretty much threw my hands up, and hoped he’d just forget about making the prequels.
one look at Jar-Jar told me to just wait for the videos to be three years old before thinking of renting them.
but the Pod Racer game was waay cool.
Like I’m even going to CONSIDER missing another episode.
Like I really BELIEVE ‘hey, it could be like that.’